Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-22

HIS Essay on DDSs-AuO
surrounds Many OF New York's Young
Men.
Neu Yort World.
This has been a very busy week in New
York for the dog industry.
The great dog festival and canine con-
gress Of short and long distance dogs, game
dogs, society dogs, wild, woolly and wierd
DOGS. early, smooth, American hairless
dogs. Rembrandt dogs, low-brOwed and base
dogs, with a strong love for home and an
oyermastering desire to partake Of people
with whom they are not acquainted; intel
lectual dogs with lop ears, early dwarf
dogs, plain dogs for poor people, self-made
but earnest dogs within the reach Of all,
dogs with singular good qualities and
plural bad ones, all this mighty aggrega-
ton of what the interstate commission
might be pardoned for calling the long
howl and the short howl, has been in ses-
sion.
II has served to call our attention to the
dogs that cluster about Our own doors
the dogs, the dogs, the dear little dogs with
whom we are thrown in contact.
Some dogs are priced for their beauty,
Others for their af~fectiOnate disposition and
clinging natures, while Others are much
sought for on account of their social quall-
ties, which endear them to all while they
live and cast a large, wide gloom over the
circle of friends in which they moved when
they die, which is too often the lot of all.
But the object Of this treatise is not so
much to enter into the great history, deri-
walton and diagnosis of the dog, as 1t Is to
point out the great danger which lies at
our door in Ease we allow the dog to be-
come our master.
No stranger can walk the streets of New
York and see the large number OF other
wise exemplary young men who are being
misled by dogs to whom they are attached
without feeling a keen pang of regret and
apprehension.
IL is with a view towards the emancipa-
ton and amelioratiOn of this class ofyoung
men that l write to-day.
/ was once a young man myself. know
what it is to he tempted, and allured by
the false Joys which extend their smooth
and seductive vel powerful and unrelentIng
arms into the most f~requented walks OF
life, only at last to seize us and hurl us
over the barbed wire fence which divides
the narrow and lonesome paths of rectl-
tude from the O%yercowded and overted pas
lures of remorse. But l I'M not here to
state how | have evaded all these things,
and to hope that these few lines will lind
you enjoying the same great blessing, but
to warn the Young men of New York in
stentorian tones Of their danger.
Let me say it in italics:
You man, before yOW place yourself m
charge Of Il dog, try to ascertain has true
nature and ndtire tendencies.
In case there is room to spare, l wish the
printer would make the above statement in
small caps and also in large black-faced
cans where it will attract attention.
Nothing is more gratifying than the
sight of a cute little mackerel skye terrier,
with a black clammy nose, having fun
with a sensitive, ciinging young man
weighing 200 pounds.
| enjoy seeing a dapper little popcorn
hall dog, with deep-set, sinister eyes, tax
ing its master out for an airing in the
clear, crisp morning, and like to watch
the young mans il~l-Concealed JOY a he
scampers along behind carrying his nine
pound horizontal cane and dummy gloves
in his lily-white hand. But it would be
well to know the motives, the tendencies
and the aims of such a dog.
Ispeak OF this matter just as would II
my W son had attained an age of 80 or
40 years and WAS just budding into man
hood. | could not, oh, indeed | could not
intrust him to the care and guardianship
of an unknown and untried, though per
haps alluring dog.
| do not reprove the ladies of New York
for taking mold of q small chain to the
! other end of which q small, fluffy dog has
attached himself. Women can do such
things. But man is more yielding, more
trusting in his nature, and if he felt that
he could trust u certain dog, that dog
might lead him anywhere.
/ do not know why men were made sc
weak and trusting, but they are that way
and they cannot help it. All they want Il
some one to love aud follow about and
admire.
knew q young man once who came Il
New York 4 stranger, rs many people are
who were never here before. He was to
tally unused to the ways Of n large city
and his head was turned by the novelty
which confronted him on every hand, anC
before he knew it. he had placed himsel
in the power of an insinuating metrOpoli
tan dog that resembled a lamp-chimney
cleaner in a gale of wind. Last Sunday
that dog led his companion through a sid
door into q saloon that vas closed. Sigh
draft beer was ten cents per glass.
I will not pain the reader with wha
followed, but if what | have said may Sc
even one young man to thinking, or caus'
him to pause and to weigh well the char
acter of the dog into whose keeping he la
intrusted his whole life and its aims, it
achievements and its possibilities, | shall
not have labOTed in vain. BILL NHE.